The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1887-02-27
COULISSE CHAT.

The only reason why Mrs. Langtry aud Mr..
Gebhardt don't marry is-Mr. Langtry.
The starring tour Of Edmund d. y; Collier cost
his uncle, j. W. Collier about SlO,UU
Mime. Maternn, who Is singing In Russia, says
that she does not intend to visit America again.
"Sophia," which made a decided failure Mt
Wnllack's, has passed its two hundrcdth night in
London.
Mr.. Dixey has begun the rehearsal Of his new
piece, "Adonis the Second" wherein the statue
of Adons Is sold tot dude.
Miss Sidney Armstrong. who takes q leading
part in "Hoodman Blind" il II young Ohio girl,
and n very promising actress.
Richard Mansfield, who has beer, promising
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde" for several successive
months has now put II of until next season.
John Brougham wrote comic opera called
'The Crimson Mask" twenty years ago. from
crib %f 's''' " '''' w Nv ''N''''' "
Mrs Langtry receives personally eighty per
cent. of the box-oflice receipts and Edwin Booth
has ninety. Mrs. iangtry has been PLAYING to an
average business this season OF S8,OOOh week.
she is going to become n nun. The lordly dude
ling now inquiries why he should continue to cN-
ist. He shouldn't. He will he cheerfully cx-
cused.
The scenery used In "Hoodnian Blind" is very
SGSsy spinny PIN s By @oonsht Rats 'fes va
| Thames EmbankmentbyN Night"
When sothern played D,indrearn in New
Brunswick he wns Missed and e2gcd of tho stage.
| II was thought that he was an American and
| that he was trying to satirizc the English nris
\ tOcracy.
"Nym Crnklc" says that he cnn remember the
time, when he used to think ltosc Coghlan, was
| the handsomest woman in the world, and he
adds, i've got n son now who Is beginning to
| think the same way"
| Lawrence Barrett Is a vigorous tramp and
always walks to the theatre from his hotel nnd
| back again. He Is said to be quite an athlete
| and capable of supprcssing nny rO,indcr who
might meet him in il dark alley.
Mr.; Joseph Haworih. who takes the leading
critics generally one of the rising men Of tho pro-
| fession His personation of Jack Yellett has been
praised everywhere especially In critical Boston.
Miss Amy Rosellc who came to this country
sipidly pretty face, has been discharged from the
company playing "Alone in London on the
Robert Robe Bnc6anan's play. The play has proved u
losing speculation to its English managers
"Moodman Blind" was W,9s, one of the impoEaGt
with Mr. Henry Arthur Jones. Mr.. barrett saw
Haworth In the piece and praised him highly,
and assumed by himself, Q,arrett,I was In many
respects revelation to him.
Levy, the blower OF horns and too frequent
professional tour around the globe. In England
he quarreled with Camilla urso and other men,
St es sose ro the pr h
charged them. They rcorganized and went on
without him, and he, finding that he Is not II
whole show, wonders what he Is going to do for
a living.
!; ". shannon, at present acting with James s
O'Neill has revised the librctto of George f.
Brstow's "Trip Van Winkle," u piece that has
slumbcrcd about as long as did RIP himself, and
1t will be produced in the course of time by the
Spitten SS by % Mr. Wainwright, The lbrctto Was toe
sttcd and heroic, and had too little of Rip Van
Winko In It.. Mr.. Iirstow will revise his in,sl,
| tn ShnuuDu'g
text.
The sound of the gnlloping lorsc in ''licld b,
the Enemy" is produced In this way; Outside OF
the entrance To the tent stands the property man
and attached to his hands by straps, Ike shampoo
thing like horses hOOfs and followed out. II
these are loosely tackled real horseshocs. With
these appliances the property man makes al th'
noise, nnd the rocky road is simply u thin slab %
sandstone covered with n bit of rubber cloth an'
resting on wooden upriPhts.
William j. Fl0rcncc In his younger days, was
great spcechmakcr. On the least proyocttion IN
would rush before tho, curtain, and hurl e1prcs
turn at the backs Of the rctrcnting audience
i One evening, when he was doing one night stand
on the New EnglanI clrcuit, u few inIidiciOii
auditors were bold enough toapglaud 1T tho ial
from behind, and bowed 10 the audience Ia
dies and gentlemen" he said, "or fellow towns
I men, as lmay call you, thank you. Ihougl
: IN this old town OF Now Haven that lived az
! boy. Under tho shade of the college cms, an
\ by tho side of tho old courthouse, / spent III
. faces before me tonight who were boys with IN
\ then. have met with some appreciation In m
q life, but nowhere is II more sweet and more dea
\ than In this my native town To-day as Wake
= front whispered in d very loud Voice "Mr, Flo
renee this isn't New Haven; it's Hartford"